I do it when I realize it’s a comment I don’t want to be associated with. Maybe I realized I was being tone deaf, maybe I realized I was being monumentally stupid, maybe I thought I was being clever until the post posting clarity showed me the light, and maybe I realized I was wading into a fight I don’t want to actually fight.
I get the people who prefer edits, and if I think an edit is valuable I’ll make it. I’m very much not afraid to edit. But if there’s little interaction with something and I realize it’s something I’d rather not have said, well then I just delete it.
I do it when I realize it’s a comment I don’t want to be associated with. Maybe I realized I was being tone deaf, maybe I realized I was being monumentally stupid, maybe I thought I was being clever until the post posting clarity showed me the light, and maybe I realized I was wading into a fight I don’t want to actually fight.
I get the people who prefer edits, and if I think an edit is valuable I’ll make it. I’m very much not afraid to edit. But if there’s little interaction with something and I realize it’s something I’d rather not have said, well then I just delete it.
Oh god the amount of times I have done the same is embarrassing, maybe I should start deleting them too.